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Energy Technologies Area (ETA) researchers are continually building on the strong scientific foundation we have developed over the past 50 years. We address the world’s most pressing climate challenges by bringing to market energy-efficient innovations across the buildings, transportation, and industrial sectors. ETA is at the forefront of developing better batteries for electric vehicles; improving the country's aging electrical grid and innovating distributed energy and storage solutions; developing grid-interactive, efficient buildings; and providing the most comprehensive market and data analysis worldwide for renewable technologies like wind and solar.
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The Energy Technologies Area (ETA) Strategic Plan is the guiding force for our research and development for the next ten years. It clearly charts a path toward clean-energy solutions and focuses on five detailed Strategic Initiatives. The Plan provides an in-depth look at how ETA is accelerating research to provide affordable, clean energy to all while accomplishing deep, economy-wide decarbonization, looking to avoid a rise in global average temperature while simultaneously developing solutions to increase humanity's resilience to extreme weather volatility.
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The Energy Technologies Area (ETA) is unique in translating fundamental scientific discoveries into scalable technology adoption. Our approach combines an understanding of the marketplace and the role of state and federal regulation and policies. ETA's research drives real-world, practical results that affect and improve the everyday lives of Americans and those across the globe. Saving energy and battling the Climate Crisis are key to the foundation of our research, which is driven by technoeconomic analysis and in-lab experimentation and discovery.

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2014

Satchwell, Andrew, Andrew D. Mills, Galen L. Barbose, Ryan H. Wiser, Peter Cappers, and Naïm R. Darghouth."Financial Impacts of Net-Metered PV on Utilities and Ratepayers: A Scoping Study of Two Prototypical U.S. Utilities." (2014).

Burkhardt, Jesse, Ryan H. Wiser, Naïm R. Darghouth, Changgui Dong, and Joshua Huneycutt."How Much Do Local Regulations Matter? Exploring the Impact of Permitting and Local Regulatory Processes on PV Prices in the United States." (2014).

Feldman, David, Galen L. Barbose, Robert Margolis, Ted James, Samantha Weaver, Naïm R. Darghouth, Ran Fu, Carolyn Davidson, Sam Booth, and Ryan H. Wiser."Photovoltaic System Pricing Trends: Historical, Recent, and Near-Term Projections - 2014 Edition." (2014).

Barbose, Galen L., Samantha Weaver, and Naïm R. Darghouth."Tracking the Sun VII: An Historical Summary of the Installed Price of Photovoltaics in the United States from 1998-2013." (2014).

Bolinger, Mark, and Samantha Weaver."Utility-Scale Solar 2013: An Empirical Analysis of Project Cost, Performance, and Pricing Trends in the United States." (2014).

Wiser, Ryan H., Mark Bolinger, Galen L. Barbose, Naïm R. Darghouth, Ben Hoen, Andrew D. Mills, Samantha Weaver, Kevin Porter, Michael Buckley, Frank Oteri, and Suzanne Tegen."2013 Wind Technologies Market Report." (2014).

Scown, Corinne D., Amit A. Gokhale, Paul A. Willems, Arpad Horvath, and Thomas E. McKone."Role of Lignin in Reducing Life-Cycle Carbon Emissions, Water Use, and Cost for United States Cellulosic Biofuels."Environmental Science & Technology 48.15 (2014) 8446 - 8455. DOI

Seel, Joachim, Galen L. Barbose, and Ryan H. Wiser."An Analysis of Residential PV System Price Differences Between the United States and Germany."Energy Policy 69.June 2014 (2014). DOI

Friedman, , Barry, Robert Margolis, and Joachim Seel."Comparing Photovoltaic (PV) Costs and Deployment Drivers in the Japanese and U.S. Residential and Commercial Markets." (2014).

Phadke, Amol A., Nikit Abhyankar, and Poorvi Rao."Empirical Analysis of the Variability of Wind Generation in India: Implications for Grid Integration." (2014).

Arent, Douglas J., Jacquelyn Pless, Trieu Mai, Ryan H. Wiser, M Maureen Hand, Samuel F. Baldwin, Garvin A. Heath, Jordan Macknick, Morgan Bazilian, Adam Schlosser, and Paul Denholm."Implications of high renewable electricity penetration in the U.S. for water use, greenhouse gas emissions, land-use, and materials supply."Applied Energy 123 (2014) 368 - 377. DOI

Rickerson, Wilson, Toby Couture, Galen L. Barbose, David Jacobs, Giles Parkinson, Emily Chessin, Andy Belden, Holly Wilson, and Henry Barrett."Residential Prosumers: Drivers and Policy Options (Re-Prosumers)." (2014).

Bolinger, Mark."An Analysis of the Costs, Benefits, and Implications of Different Approaches to Capturing the Value of Renewable Energy Tax Incentives." (2014).

Heeter, Jenny, Galen L. Barbose, Lori Bird, Samantha Weaver, Francisco Flores, Ksenia Kuskova-Burns, and Ryan H. Wiser."A Survey of State-Level Cost and Benefit Estimates of Renewable Portfolio Standards." (2014).

Breunig, Hanna, Jens T. Birkholzer, Andrea Borgia, Phillip N. Price, Curtis M. Oldenburg, and Thomas E. McKone."Assessment of Brine Management for Geologic Carbon Sequestration." (2014).

Darghouth, Naïm R., Galen L. Barbose, and Ryan H. Wiser."Customer-economics of residential photovoltaic systems (Part 1): The impact of high renewable energy penetrations on electricity bill savings with net metering."Energy Policy 67 (2014) 290 - 300. DOI

Mai, Trieu, M Maureen Hand, Samuel F. Baldwin, Ryan H. Wiser, Greg L. Brinkman, Paul Denholm, Douglas J. Arent, Gian Porro, Debra Sandor, Donna J. Hostick, Michael Milligan, Edgar A. DeMeo, and Morgan Bazilian."Renewable Electricity Futures for the United States."IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy 5.2 (2014) 372 - 378. DOI

Mills, Andrew D., Audun Botterud, Jing Wu, Zhi Zhou, Bri-Mathias Hodge, and Mike Heaney."Integrating Solar PV in Utility System Operations." (2014).

Mills, Andrew D., and Ryan H. Wiser."Strategies for Mitigating the Reduction in Economic Value of Variable Generation with Increasing Penetration Levels." (2014).

Barbose, Galen L., Naïm R. Darghouth, Samantha Weaver, David Feldman, Robert Margolis, and Ryan H. Wiser."Tracking US photovoltaic system prices 1998-2012: a rapidly changing market."Progress in Photovoltaics: Research and Applications (2014) n/a - n/a. DOI

Atkinson-Palombo, Carol, and Ben Hoen."Relationship between Wind Turbines and Residential Property Values in Massachusetts." (2014).

2013

Mills, Andrew D., and Ryan H. Wiser."Changes in the economic value of wind energy and flexible resources at increasing penetration levels in the Rocky Mountain Power Area."Wind Energy 17.11 (2013) 1711 - 1726. DOI

Dong, Changgui, and Ryan H. Wiser."The impact of city-level permitting processes on residential photovoltaic installation prices and development times: An empirical analysis of solar systems in California cities."Energy Policy 63 (2013) 531 - 542. DOI

Hoen, Ben, Geoffrey T. Klise, Joshua Graff-Zivin, Mark A. Thayer, Joachim Seel, and Ryan H. Wiser."Exploring California PV Home Premiums." (2013).

Mills, Andrew D., and Ryan H. Wiser."Changes in the Economic Value of Photovoltaic Generation at High Penetration Levels: A Pilot Case Study of California."IEEE Journal of Photovoltaics 3.4 (2013) 1394 - 1402. DOI